Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief — Season 1, Episode 11: The Flood and the Tower

Episode synopsis

In this lecture, I continue my discussion of the archaic stories at the beginning of Genesis, including Cain and Abel, and the flood story of Noah (the return of chaos), and the story of the Tower of Babel (which I am reading as a very old warning about the danger of erecting something akin to a totalitarian/utopian secular state -- so that is pathological order).

About Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief

This lecture series lays bare the grammar of mythology, and describes the relevance of that grammar for interpretation of narrative and religion, comprehension of ideological identification and understanding of individual choice.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Context and Background
• E2Marionettes and Individuals (Part 1)
• E3Marionettes and Individuals (Part 2)
• E4Marionettes and Individuals (Part 3)
• E5Story and Metastory (Part 1)
• E6Story and Metastory (Part 2)
• E7Images of Story and Metastory
• E8Neuropsychology of Symbolic Representation
• E9Patterns of Symbolic Representation
• E10Genesis and the Buddha
• E12Final: The Divinity of the Individual